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We focus on sectors where we have deep category knowledge, proprietary market data and long-standing industry research.
Water & Hydration
- Small-pack bottled water
- Water dispense (BWD, POU, ITS)
- Premium water
- Functional & enhanced water
Soft Drinks & Non-Alcoholic Beverages
- Carbonates
- Juice
- Energy & sports drinks
- RTD tea & coffee
- Functional beverages
Dairy & Cheese
- Cheese
- Milk
- Yogurt
- Cream
- Dairy ingredients & alternatives
Wider Food, Beverage & Packaging
- Aseptic packaging
- Functional nutrition
- Ingredients
- Packaged foods
- Selected adjacent F&B categories
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Global Cheese Database 2026
Compare demand, production and import dependence across 48 markets and 39 cheese types to prioritise markets and varieties. Includes 2025 actuals and forecasts to 2030.
Global Aseptic Packaging Market Report 2026
Assess demand by market, category and pack format to support capacity planning and sales priorities. Covers 39 markets, with 2025 actuals and forecasts to 2030.
Global Water Dispense Market Reports 2026
Compare markets, benchmark operators and identify industry players across 35+ markets. Explore PDF, Excel and Power BI options, with forecasts to 2030.
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See What Is Changing — and What It Means Commercially.
We take real developments in investment, competitors, M&A, capacity and demand, put them against the market data, and ask what they actually change commercially.
Every article ~4 min read
22 OCT 2026Health, Nutrition & FunctionalSports And Energy Drinks Reach 39,180 Million Litres, And Aseptic Filling Has Almost None Of It
Sports and energy drinks are the fastest growing group on the world drinks shelf at 39,180 million litres in 2025, up 7.2% a year since 2020. Zenith's Global Aseptic Packaging Market Report 2026 books just 100 million litres of the United States total as aseptic.
21 OCT 2026Corporate Strategy & PortfolioFDA Clears Salt Substitutes In 41 Cheese Standards, And The Last Sodium Push Moved The Median Just 3%
The FDA has opened 41 cheese standards to salt substitutes, with the rule effective 14 December 2026. The cheese part can still be objected to until 12 November, and the last US sodium push moved the median by 3%.
20 OCT 2026Corporate Strategy & PortfolioLarge PET Fills 25,940 Million Litres Of Aseptic Drinks Against 14,500 Million In Family Cartons
Zenith's Global Aseptic Packaging Market Report 2026 puts large PET at 25,940 million litres of aseptic drinks in 2025, against 14,500 million litres in family cartons. Cartons still lead on pack count, which turns the format split into a pack size split.
19 OCT 2026Corporate Strategy & PortfolioCheese Kingdom Shuts 84 Ukrainian Shops As Cheese Imports Hit 28,300 Tonnes, More Than Three Times Exports
Ukraine's largest specialist cheese chain has stopped trading at all 84 of its shops after 13 years. Cheese imports reached 28,300 tonnes in the seven months to July, more than three times exports, and European cheese now sits in ordinary supermarkets.
17 OCT 2026Corporate Strategy & PortfolioKrones Opens Its Largest Plant Outside Germany In China: An Aseptic Laboratory Lands As Local Line Builders Take The Orders
Krones has opened a second plant at Taicang, giving it 74,000 square metres of buildings and its largest site outside Germany. It arrives in a market where Zenith puts aseptic drinks at 17,950 million litres and local line builders hold more than 30 aseptic lines on order.
16 OCT 2026Corporate Strategy & PortfolioUS Cheese Exports Rise 9% To 59,007 Tonnes: Mexico And The Americas Supplied All Of August's Growth
US cheese exports reached 59,007 tonnes in August, up 9% on a year earlier. Mexico, South America and Central America added more than the whole net gain while South Korea fell 12%.
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